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.

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

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human