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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

A lot of companies are global.