When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.