I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

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

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

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

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.

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.