At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

We've had a long, successful history of working with the school district and this is one more example of that.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.