Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

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.

Life isn't about who you are. Life is about who you become.

Anybody that does not value time does not value life.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.