What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.
In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
If you reward candor, you’ll get it.
Make winners out of every business in your company. Don’t carry losers.
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one’s sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.
Shun the incremental and go for the leap.
Getting candor right – with your reports, your peers, and your boss – is a skill that can make or break your career.
The secret of success is changing the way you think.
Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn’t know where they stand.
They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
This shows you are never too old to get surprised.
I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.
Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.
Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.
I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.
You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That’s what success is all about. It’s getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.
The thing it taught me was that winning’s a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.