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My mum was a teacher and my dad was off working and having philandering affairs, so when I came home from school I would make the tea for me and my brother.

After earning an M.B.A. from Stanford and working for a short time in Chicago at McKinsey & Co., I moved back home in 1983 and literally bet the farm to provide the seed capital for a startup, which we grew into a world-class company, Great Plains Software.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

I love coming home.

As a driver, it's very important to feel at home and feel that the team wants you. I've always felt at McLaren it was pretty much love at first sight since we started talking.

Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

Although you'll seldom hear him do it, my dad sings really well. When I was a kid, we'd go hunting, and the old pickup truck had a radio in it. I have a lot of memories of coming home late at night and hearing my dad break out in song.