If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.