Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna read more

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other read more

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,
The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,
The Douglas in read more

Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,
The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,
The Douglas in red herrings.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is read more

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business