A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.