“Everyone’s saying you can’t do anything until you can do everything.”

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

With the press there is no ‘off the record.’

If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.

Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn’t exist.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Whatever your position, reach out to those who know more than you do, and have been around longer than you have. Find those people. Listen carefully. And learn.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.

Remember where you came from.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

Nothing will work unless you do.