Sam Wyly

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.