If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

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.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

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.