“The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.”

“Management must manage!”

“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.”

“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”

“Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.”

“You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.”