The biggest problem with employee theft is that it often leads you to make bad decisions about your business and your life. The emotions are so overwhelming that you tend to overreact. You can’t get back to making good business decisions until you take the emotions out of the process.

Marriage is dif ferent from these others. The mer ged life of marriage brings you into the closest, most inescapable contact with another person possible. And that means not only that you see each other close up, but that you are forced to deal with the flaws and sins of one another.

We can rise too high but can never stoop too low.

The first Law of Combat: Cover and Move. This is teamwork—every individual and team within the team, mutually supporting one another to accomplish the mission.

Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.

Speaking in I-statements, not you-statements, owning your own feelings and finding out about and acknowledging the other person’s feelings are usually the best ways to deal with the inevitable differences that arise in families.

But when individualism becomes the absolutely dominant ethos of a civilization—when it is not counterbalanced with any competing ethos—then the individuals within it may have maximum freedom, but the links between the individuals slowly begin to dissolve.

How can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness?

Every time you talk to someone, you should be asking a question which has the potential to completely destroy your currently imagined business.

The end of modernity, a resurgence of interest in spirituality, and a greater vulnerability about our disillusionment and disappointment with life have made us seriously wonder if there is another room.