If you're going to start a company, it's not going to be in the millions of dollars, but it's going to be something - for a lot of these kids - out of the trunk of their car, the same way that I did.
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom
The beginnings of all things are small.
I auditioned for my first show in Delhi and got through. There's no fancy story around it, sadly.
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start.
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.
I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.
