Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.