There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.