Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.