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.

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

There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

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.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

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