Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Most of the learning that you had as a merchant - especially back then - came from the people around you, so it's really learning on the job and principles coming out like - back then, we didn't really sign contracts, and we had some vendor agreements to make sure we could pay people, but your handshake was your agreement.

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

We believe in learning from other people.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.