In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

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

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

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.