Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.