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

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

What you manage in business is people

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.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

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.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.