One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.