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.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

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.

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

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.