Have character, but don't be a character.

I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several