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

“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.”

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

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.”

“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.”

“If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.”

“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.”

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“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.”