One of our challenges -- but it's also an opportunity -- is to figure out how a stand-alone Hoover can re-enter the marketplace with a marketing and sales strategy that's appropriate to 2006.

The Hoover brand has got some obvious good will associated with it.

Obviously it's a big match for me, but I've got nothing to lose. It's a wonderful opportunity. You've got to go out there and perform, try and do the best you can, and not think about it too much. I am delighted to be part of the team and I feel I have been improving steadily over the last year.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.