The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

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

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.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

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

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.