Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.