A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

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.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.