Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it’s written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.
You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.
Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.
You’ll always get the good news; it’s how fast you get the bad news that counts.
Knowledge is not power unless it is used.
You can’t hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That’s usually how the best ideas bloom.
It isn’t the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it’s the qualities you bring to those ideas.
Make your decisions with your heart, and you’ll end up with heart disease.
The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
If you don’t look ahead, you’ll always be behind.
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.
Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.
Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.
Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
I’m a little shot that just kept on shooting.
When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she’s doing is valid.
Pessimism doesn’t grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.