So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

Technology should serve the farmer, not complicate their work.

Leadership means making tough decisions today for a better tomorrow.

Leadership in agribusiness means having the courage to invest in long-term solutions when others seek short-term profits.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

I always tell people, if you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.