I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.

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

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

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

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.