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.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

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?

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.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

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