I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.

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.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.