Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

He began each day with “The Morning Question: What Good shall I do this day?” and ended with “The Evening Question: What Good have I done today?” It is hard to imagine a philosophy of self-improvement cast in a more ethical fashion.

Rule 6: Don’t Overmanage

No business can trust everything and count nothing. Nor can any business count everything and trust nothing. It’s all a question of balance, although my own instincts lead me toward far less reliance on counting and far more reliance on trusting. Statistics—in charts, graphs, and tables—can be used to prove almost anything in business, but unquanti

In life, we too often allow the illusory to triumph over the real. We focus too much on things and not enough on the intangibles that make things worthwhile; too much on success (a word I’ve never liked) and not enough on character , without which success is meaningless. Amidst the twenty-first-century pressures for immediate satisfaction and amass

In a New York Times essay in November 2004, David Brooks put it well: Highly educated young people are tutored, taught, and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character-building. But without character and courage, nothing else lasts.

Too Much Cost, Not Enough Value

If a job is to be done, best to do it right.

“Once you decide whether you expect to be in business for a short time or a long time, most of the right decisions are easy.”

But in my long career I don’t ever recall thinking of work as work, with one exception: a stint as a pinsetter in a bowling alley (now there’s a truly Sysiphean job!).