Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.