Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.