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

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.

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