The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.

Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.