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.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

There is no straight line to a dream.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.