-: I love taking an idea,
turning that idea into a piece of paper,
taking that piece of paper and turning that into a product,
and deploying that product
and then ultimately turning that product into profit.
And then at the end of the day,
the thing that everybody wants to do
is to sell that revenue stream to someone else
and go do it again.
That's really what's fun.
That's not called work, for me.
So the fun part is truly looking at that idea
and vetting that idea.
Sometimes I have actually spent about 20 years
on an idea that I'm about to build.
So sometimes, I've vetted ideas for six months,
some I've done for six years,
and some I've done for much longer.
I think that for me,
as it is for probably a lot of people, focus.
The one thing that when I graduated from
University of North Alabama here,
I signed a contract to try to make the Dallas Cowboys.
And this was in 1978.
Come to find out that they signed 80 other -
-: actually they signed 79 other young men
to try to make the world champion Dallas Cowboys in 1978.
The bad news is they only kept one guy.
Fortunately, that one guy was me.
But I can tell you that every morning that I woke up
and every night that I went to bed,
I ate, drank, slept the Dallas Cowboys.
So focus is a very important principle to me.
And when you are focused, truly, you can accomplish
anything that you want.