Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

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

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.