In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.
I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.
It offends me when people do useless work.
I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.
The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.
Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.
Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.
