At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.
There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.
I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.