A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?