I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.