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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.