In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. - Harold Geneen

When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. A man should feel free to tell his chief executive to his face, 'I think you're dead wrong about such and such, and here are my reasons.'