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

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

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

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

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

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

Welcome the hidden messages in pain.

What we think, we act.

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Successful people are action oriented.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.