In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

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 will face hard times in life. Sometimes they are supposed to come, sometimes not. Get through them no matter what, 'cause the good life is always on the other side.

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.

People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

No man ever became wise by chance.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.