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

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.