The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

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

One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how do you maximize essentially your liquidity position? Your ability to both take kind of profits and revenues and business and then convert that into a stronger lead. And so those companies that can do that can actually, you know, get a march on their competitors.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

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.