If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.