Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.

Short-term can be terminal.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.