Part of my role at T-Mobile is the ability to just be myself, because I'm 58 years old and I've done very well, and I don't need to fight my way up the hierarchy with my suit and hair anymore.

I think this job at T-Mobile has more than anything else helped me really see and understand how to set a strategy, communicate like crazy, and then passionately lead from the front of it.

I've given my email address to all 3,000 T-Mobile stores. Serious customer escalations come directly to me. Customers get a kick out of me responding to them, and the employees do, too.

When we're talking about the transformation, we can add in the 25 pounds I've gained - I've been eating my way through the wireless industry.

When I used to live in Asia, they used to say, "If you're going to sing karaoke, you want to go after the worst singer." And I'd be coming in Deutsche Telekom after the worst singer.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

I'm a big Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] fan. Huge. I love her. She's gorgeous. I see her Maybelline ads, and I'm like, 'How can she be that pretty?'

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.