Control your destiny or somebody will.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

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 don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.