All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.