Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level.

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.

After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.

You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Courage is crossing a starting line.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.