The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.

Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.

Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.

Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of read more

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to read more

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.