I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.
If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.
It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future. "
It's a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it's all about numbers, numbers, numbers.
Don't let anyone say you can't do it.
This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.
I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.