We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.