The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree