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Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

I definitely think it's important for a CEO of any large corporation to understand how policy impacts their business and be aware of the decisions being made in Congress.