Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!