In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.