I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

If I had been a bricklayer Id still have been a journeyman.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

truth is a letter from courage!