“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business bet...” — Michel de Montaigne Quote

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers.

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.