Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
If a train station is where the train stops, what's a workstation?
Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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