Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement...Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.