If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.

Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.