If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.