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.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

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.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

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

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