Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.