What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.