No checks, please. Cash, and in small bills. No books are lost by lending except those you particularly wanted to keep. Auditors always reject any expense account with a bottom line divisible by 5 or 10. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it.
Poverty is life's cheapest lesson.
America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I've seen anyone asleep in church-and that's a bad situation. The closer one climbs to the top of the heap, the more clearly one sees the feet of clay. If you don't get a reader's attention in the first paragraph, the remainder of your message is lost. Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativeness. To build something that endures, it is of great importance to have a long tenure in office-to rule for many years.