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.

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

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

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.

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.

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