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

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

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

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

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.