Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't think I realized that they would be willing to risk kind of a 1920s Germany in order to blow it all up, not realizing that we've accomplished a lot as Americans, and we want to keep the good things and revolutionize the new things.

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

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.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

Help the people in your network. And let them help you.