You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

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.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.