You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

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

I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.