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

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

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

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.