If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It's nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.