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.

Don't make the process harder than it is.

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

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.