You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments