No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

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.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

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