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.

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

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

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

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