Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

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

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.