The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

I don't give investment advice.

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere.

The dream is yours… why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Great men have big failures.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays