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I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.