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I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.