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" We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? "

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" Give me a highly successful unionized industry. "

" If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. "

" My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. "

" Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. "

" CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. "

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

" Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. "

" If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. "

" I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. "

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

" One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. "

" I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. "

" I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. "

" In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. "

" There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. "

" Change before you have to. "

" Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. "

" Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition. "

" Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. "

Self-Confidence

" You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. "

" You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. "

" The Internet is the Viagra of big business. "

" Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. "

" The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. "

" Culture drives great results. "

" The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. "

" In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision. "

" If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. "

" Don't manage - lead change before you have to. "

" You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. "