We find that when we make an acquisition, or we have a hiring experience, that's one of the hardest things to change. If you've been working for a company where you didn't dare challenge your boss, or what's politically correct in the company, then it affects your career.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.