"Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership."

"My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be."

"When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling."

"Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company."

"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."

"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."

"I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history."

"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."