There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.