When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.