Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

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.

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

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.