In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

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.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

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.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.