“A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse – not a remarkable mathematician.”
“ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.”
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.”
“Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.”
“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.”
“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”
“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
“It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.”
“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
“What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.”
“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”
“You cannot make a good deal with a bad person.”