In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.

It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.