I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to - or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say - of being inspired by outside heroes.

You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.