It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

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.

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

Survival often demands our courage.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

And everything would be different, different.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.