My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

Every business is about understanding people. Which people you have to get through. Which people you have to embrace. Which people you have to jump over. Which people you have to push out of the way. That’s the game.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.