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Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.