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.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what wont. I can tell instantly if its a hero or a zero.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

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.