You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said and written about the so-called "New Economy." Some people said all economic laws have been overturned! Then all the problems developed. Corporations were heavily fined for illegalities. Many of their senior-level executives were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison.

The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.