Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

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

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.