Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

My career has been a monument, not to brilliance or complexity, but to common sense and simplicity, “the uncanny ability,” as one observer has said of me, “to recognize the obvious.”

Rule 10: Press On, Regardless

I’ve often thought that we three brothers had the perfect growing-up environment: a family with community standing and never a concern about being inferior or dis-respected, yet with the need to take responsibility for our own spending money (and

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 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 Complexity, Not Enough Simplicity

“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”

Too Much “Success,” Not Enough Character

Building a great organization demands finding the right words to communicate the best ideas and the highest ideals, words that convey purpose and passion and vision.