I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'