The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

The world belongs to passionate driven people.

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.