“It may not seem this way at first, but your workplace is actually built on a well-ordered system of individuals and groups with defined stations of importance, all interacting to make your company run and appear busy.”

“Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.”

“No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements.”

“Like all the Van Holtz males, Ric was tall, well-built with a slightly overdeveloped diver’s body, and handsome. Yet handsome was only the first stop on the beauty train for Ric, who managed to head all the way into the station for The Land of Gorgeous.”

“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”