In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

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.

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.

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.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

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