“The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.”

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

I don’t know about technology and I don’t know about finance and accounting.

We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.

I used practically all the money I had available.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I’m particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

I know what I don’t know. To this day, I don’t know technology, and I don’t know finance or accounting.

I wasn’t ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I’ve been in the process of selling others.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

I didn’t have anything to apologize for.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.

If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?