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.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

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 was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

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

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