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.

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.

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 got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.