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You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

I run a small company with 18 employees on its payroll.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

For too many, to work means having less income.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.