One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

You can't serve God and money.

I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.