GM's new CEO Whitacre: Uncompromising

• Top 10 quotes from Brainstorm Tech

  by Patricia Sellers and Jessica Shambora

  We took a break from posting our daily Power Point--Postcards' quote of the day--last week, but we collected more than a few good ones at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Pasadena. Here are our 10 favorites,  from the mouths of media moguls, tech titans, Tweeters and more.

  "It's not really my thing. I don't go to the dentist. I don't do things that cause me to emote." MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 28, 2009 12:09 PM ET
  Posted in: Ashton Kutcher, AT&T, barry diller, Ben Silverman, biz stone, Bob Iger, Brainstorm Tech, Carol Bartz, CEOs, Disney, dreamworks, eBay, entertainment, Facebook, FORTUNE MPWomen, howard dean, IAC, jeffrey katzenberg, John Donahoe, Jon Miller, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, media, Most Powerful Women Summit, News Corp., politics, Postcards, Power Point, Randall Stephenson, Silicon Valley, technology, twitter

• Power Point: If you build it, they will come

  "It could well be that we are witnesses to the birth of yet another Apple ecosystem."

  -- Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett in the New York Times Wednesday. After the bell, Apple (AAPL) reported a 15% jump in second-quarter net income to $1.21 billion. Sales of the iPhone surged 123% over the last quarter, with 3.79 million units sold.

  "The iPhone has quieted any skeptics who thought this was a one-time event MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 22, 2009 7:24 PM ET
  Posted in: AAPL, Apple, AT&T, earnings, Postcards, Power Point, Sanford Bernstein, telecom

• Power Point: No bonus for me!

  "I felt it was the right thing to do. We are a company that expects the highest performance and accountability, and that starts at the top."

  - AT&T (ATT) CEO Randall L. Stephenson, in a memo to employees about forgoing his 2008 bonus. Here's a boss who (unlike the Wall Street honchos) didn't have to give it up. In fact, Stephenson's decision distinguishes him as a very different kind of leader MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Feb 2, 2009 3:59 PM ET
  Posted in: AT&T, bonus, CEO pay, CEOs, Ed Whitacre, Postcards, Randall Stephenson, telecom

• AT&T CEO declines bonus, breaks from predecessor

  by Stephanie Mehta

  Pattie Sellers recently blogged about good and bad corporate behavior.  Here's another example to add to the "good form" category: AT&T chief Randall L. Stephenson is forgoing his 2008 bonus.

  "I asked the board not to pay me a bonus for 2008, and they approved that request," Stephenson wrote in a memo to employees. "Given the economic environment, the workforce reductions, and our earnings outlook for 2009, I felt MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Feb 2, 2009 1:41 PM ET
  Posted in: AT&T, bonus, bonuses, CEO pay, CEOs, Ed Whitacre, Postcards, Randall Stephenson, telecom

• Power Point: Don't dig a bigger hole

  "We have a bunch of idiots on Wall Street that are kicking sand in the face of the American taxpayer."

  -- Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, on the floor of the Senate Friday. McCaskill introduced legislation stipulating that no employee of any company that accepts federal bailout money be allowed to earn more than the President of the United States. Obama's annual salary is $400,000. The bill came a day after Obama MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jan 30, 2009 7:28 PM ET
  Posted in: AT&T, Barack Obama, Boeing, caterpillar, economy, finance, Home Depot, job losses, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Pfizer, politics, Postcards, Power Point, senate, Starbucks, stock market, Wall Street, Washington

• Global crisis: Fortune 500 CEOs weigh in

  I took a 7 a.m. Acela from New York to Washington, D.C. this morning to meet with D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and then attend the Fortune 500 Forum, beginning this afternoon. My train was on time to the minute; Rhee's red-eye from the West Coast was delayed by D.C. fog, so she and I are now due to meet Wednesday. I'll share my thoughts later this week about Rhee, who MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Dec 1, 2008 2:05 PM ET
  Posted in: American Express, Antonio Perez, AT&T, Best Buy, Brad Anderson, CEOs, Coca-Cola, Coke, consumer goods, education, Fedex, financial crisis, Fortune 500, Fortune 500 Forum, Fred Smith, global economy, Hank Paulson, Ken Chenault, Kodak, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Michelle Rhee, Muhtar Kent, Postcards, Power Shift, Randall Stephenson, Washington