Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

All of management is about self-confidence