Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

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

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

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.

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.