My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

What makes America great is in our imagination, not in memorization. We are not a memorization-fixated culture. We can't compete with the Chinese and Japanese in memorization. Where we have been competitive is in creativity.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

Soon we will be addicted to the federal government, and we will not want to support our local police force. I have been a believer that the government that governs best is the government that governs least.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.