I'm sorry, but how can you not have respect for that man?
Honor and integrity are cornerstones of leadership. He gets it.
Contrast that with Robert Nardelli, the CEO of Chrysler. After screwing up Home Depot he walks away with a golden parachute of roughly $250 million. Now he's before congress whining for a bailout...
Or how about John Thain, the CEO of Merrill Lynch? After the company was on the brink of collapse during his "leadership" and then sold to Bank Of America at a firesale price he wanted a ten million dollar bonus for his "performance".