The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.