If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

All's well that carries on well

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

I hate children! I hate them all!

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.