I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.