Short-term can be terminal.

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

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.

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

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

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

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.