Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do.
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.