The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.

The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.

No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be read more

No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be the time to be urgent.

We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us read more

We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us right now.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to read more

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.

I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look read more

I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.

We'll take donations of any amount.

We'll take donations of any amount.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did read more

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair read more

[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair and it caused an under-the-nail blood blister. The injury occurred in the post-Photoshop era, but even so, the resulting lag in work could have cost him trusted clients.] I thought Photoshop was the end of my career, ... I thought they'd be able to get any ol' pair of hands in there. But what most people don't realize is there's a brain that comes connected to these hands. You need to know the tricks of the trade. It's just like fashion modeling: You can get a pretty woman to put on an outfit, but once you send her down the runway, does she know what to do?