Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

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

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.