Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.