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.

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

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

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

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

People retire to do what I do every day.