The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.