I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.