Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it find a hurt and heal it find a problem and solve it.

In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

There is an answer to any problem in the Word of God.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

The wise communicate in subtle ways.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

First solve the problem. Then, write the code.