We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.