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.

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

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.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.