When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

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.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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