Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive – and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you’re there you will become very well liked.
Power always works from the corner office.
We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing...
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can’t move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
If you can’t add to the discussion, don’t subtract by talking.
For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
Repeat nothing – absolutely nothing – that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Don’t worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.
A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.
Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
Don’t ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, ‘You may not like me for this, but it’s for your own good – ’ It never is.
Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Survival must come before civilization.