You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

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.

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.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

To me, it’s always what’s next and I think that’s what drives most very successful people. It’s never about the money. I mean that’s a way of keeping score. It’s about achievement and it’s about winning a game and it’s about upping the ante.