To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

If I can do it, you can do it.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.