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.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

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

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

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.

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.