I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but we tell people openly that they ought to look at the company for the long term and that's how they ought to invest.