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

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.