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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.