Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.