The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.