Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.