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.

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

What you manage in business is people

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

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.

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.

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