A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.