The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.