You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

We don't want a fire sale ... Perhaps, we can discuss that but we're not going to gut the company.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.