My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.