Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Too many cold, hungry nights had taught her a special kind of practicality, but in that moment, she believed in his magic.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.