I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

I'd rather be respected than loved.