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.

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.

One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?"This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

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

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.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.