No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.