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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.