“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.

The only thing I would change is during the summer – when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who’s ever had a job – in fact, we’re pretending to be serious now, more or less.

People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It’s to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs.

Elections have consequences,’ President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.