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

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.

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

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

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.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.