Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If Hillary Clinton had policies that would more likely make people's lives better than Republicans, I'd be for Hillary. I'm for whoever will do that. I couldn't care less.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.