The key solution is to invest in innovation and entrepreneurship within the company. Reducing waste - although probably not eliminating it - and do so at all levels of government would probably generate the capital needed. Alas, that will probably not happen because it makes too much sense.

The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them.

The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.

There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses possibly closing down, thus creating fewer jobs and more unemployment and incentivizing companies to import more goods from abroad, which leads to even less employment at home, and so on.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.