I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

Cars are usually the second largest purchase for most people, right after their house. It makes sense to take care of your automobile, not only for sustaining its worth, but for safety purposes as well.

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.