Entrepreneurship

You don't have to be Bill Gates or Thomas Edison or Henry Ford to make a difference. Thousands of less famous entrepreneurs have done more than their part to enrich this country.

Growth has been the great alleviator of poverty. Growth has been the engine of social mobility. Growth is the key ingredient in the glue that holds our society together.

I had to substitute money with creativity and that's what made all the difference. I had to make a movie in a way that broke the traditional mold and learn not to be a slave to tradition.

The best way to deal with most difficulties and challenges is to see them as opportunities to help us grow—lessons that are presented to us to help us go further than we have gone before.

A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.

You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed. Doors will slam in your face, I guarantee it. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go back and knock again. It's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

Ready, Fire, Aim. If you feel positive in your gut about your idea — do it. Don't get stuck in the limbo of 'Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim' and let someone else do the firing. Be there first!

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

True opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity — and if I don't find it, I have to create it.

You don't have to be the biggest — just the best.