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

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.

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

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.

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.

When one heart feels the other and in harmony, love is there.

It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.