To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

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

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

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.

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.