America's companies are built to destroy creativity.
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.
A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.