If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.