A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.