For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

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 have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

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