"In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

"Management must manage!"

"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."

"You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?"

"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."

"Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."