I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I think Forever 21 is a great way to get in on the trends without spending a lot of money.

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.