A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.