I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that.

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster growth.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.