The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

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

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

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