It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?