If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.