Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

With the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a Council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.

I experienced, along with the rest of the team, what it was like to go from being a Cinderella story with a great entrepreneur in Sam Walton to being large and disliked just because you're large, and all of the negatives that went with it. So I personally don't use the word "scale" very much because when I hear that word I think of pain.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

So probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.