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

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

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

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.