If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

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.

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.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.