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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.

Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.