You know, my sister, she does my hair, and she says, 'Why don't you try changing your hairstyle?' And I go, 'I like it. Why would I change something I like?'Collection: Change
You keep the faith, and with God, all things are possible.Collection: Faith
I started out with a carpet-cleaning business. Then I had a lunch wagon business, where you pull up and serve food. Then I had bars and then restaurants.Collection: Business
I get my stuff from dreams from God.
We take such good care of our employees. What I do is think about what I would want my employer to be like. We started helping our employees with every facet of their lives, and our HR problems went from A to Z in reverse.
God's given me a gift to be able to put people in the right position, where their strengths are!
It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.
I would ruin my credibility if I put my stamp of approval of anything I didn't do my due diligence on.
I'm going to do what God wants me to do.
Whether I get four hours of sleep or eight, I always feel well-rested.
If you buy something on the Internet, and they didn't collect tax, you're supposed to pay it - but nobody knows that. So there's trillions of dollars that were never collected.
I can't help that we help people so much.
Donald Trump proved you need a businessman to run things, not just someone who is a career politician. I'm sorry, but to me what do they know?
Most pillows are air supported; the air goes out of them, and then your cervical nerves get bent.
Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.
I had a very weird, very vivid dream. Donald Trump and I were in some kind of room. It was an office with pictures on the wall behind us, and we were standing next to each other posing for a picture.
There are bad people in all walks of life, including police.
I got freed of all of my addictions January 16, 2009, but at that point I didn't do a full surrender to Jesus. I didn't give a full surrender until February 18, 2017, so there's quite a story in between where God was still chasing me.
Advertising decisions are based on what's best for MyPillow, my employees and my customers.
I want to come across as an average guy, talking to his neighbor.
I don't boycott any station.
I stand firm in what I believe in.
For years people have approached me with great products but have had no way of marketing them.
It's tough for entrepreneurs when they're small to get good prices on stuff.
I was 16 years old at the Supervalu Store in Chaska, Minnesota, working as a bag boy, and with one of my checks I went out and bought a $70 pillow in 1977. Who does that as a teenager?
Who doesn't like salvation?
Who doesn't like the American Dream?
Who doesn't like a redemption story?
We don't use PowerPoints.
The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being involved in a presidential campaign.
I always had the dream of doing a 'real' infomercial because I had done smaller home shows and fairs. Everyone said it wasn't going to work. 'You need a movie star,' they said. But I wanted to do it myself because I'm selling the passion - there is a problem and I have a solution - that had resonated well with people.
All of my employees have passion, the philosophy of caring about the customer as an individual customer.
I want 100 percent of customers to like MyPillow and 100 percent of people to be taken care of. If you help someone, they tell two people, they tell 20 people, they tell 200 people, and the money takes care of itself.
If God had me run for something, I would do it in a heartbeat.
I didn't know a liberal from a conservative. I had a clean slate.
We're a mess in Minnesota.
A lot of people recognize me from the MyPillow ads, and they often stop and ask for pictures. It's a blessing.
I come from a past of addition, so I didn't pay much attention to politics.
Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.
I'm a businessman. I never knew anything about politics. I know what's right, what's wrong and what's working.
There is so many good ideas that are left on the shelf of people going, 'I've kind of great idea, but I just - I'm afraid.' Out of fear. Fear blocks all of that it's a false fear.
I live in the same town I grew up in and all my kids have worked for me and now, I have grandkids and now, it's amazing. They came through. They all played a part in my business and that's pretty amazing.
God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned its back on God.
I believe that Amazon is going to destroy the box stores... and when box stores go under, restaurants go under, the movie theaters go under, the gas stations go under. You become ghost towns.
I give media outlets my direct number.
I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.
As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.
I first met Mr. Trump in August of 2016 during which we specifically spoke about everything made in America, bringing jobs back to the U.S. and strategies for reviving the inner cities. I realized right then he would be the best president ever.
Like Mr. Trump, an entrepreneur and business man by trade, I have seen, first-hand, the importance of the 'Made in the U.S.A.' label.
Products made in America can lead to prosperity.