It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

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

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.