Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'