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If you’ve ever been fired you know how difficult that can be. I’ve needed to fire many employees over my 45 years as president of my own company. And while I still have trouble pulling the trigger, I’ve come to see “firing” people in a new light. Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet that “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” When it comes to letting someone go, I’ve found that what I might otherwise consider “bad” actually leads to better opportunities for my former employee...

I read a NY Times op ed piece yesterday about aging, the author feeling uncomfortable as the oldest person in the room. I wondered, “What has changed for me?”

For most of my life I have done enough to get what I wanted. No more, no less.

This means that I have watched a lot of football games, spent time in class and in travel, and completely indulged and overindulged my passions of the moment. Those passions have included accumulating wealth, finding intimacy, and in the words of e. e. cumm...

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One of the most important qualities you can have to succeed in your life is not intelligence, money, or education. What you need is actually free, and you can have it today and every day for the rest of your life.

You must simply believe that you will prevail.

I know it sounds too simple to be true, but if you believe you will prevail I guarantee that you will succeed in your life. Please remember that success is not prevailing at once. It is prevailing at last.

Lorelei has been a good frie...

One of my “Chiseled in Granite” business principals is: “Avoid Financial Disaster.”

I learned this lesson the hard way when I was seven-years-old. At that time I listened to Major League baseball games on the radio. I did not realize that the broadcast started an hour or two after the game began and were a re-creation of the actual game.

One afternoon I was looking forward to a Yankees – Red Sox game. Out of the blue, my father said, “I’ll bet you that the Yankees are leading one to nothing...