For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.