A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.