How to fail: Try too hard.

Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Presence is more than just being there.

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

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.