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I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.