Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.

If you want a friend, buy a dog.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.