Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

The way to do well is to do well.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.