Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.