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.

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

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.

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.