As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul.

The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.

As John Fox told me, personally, Sean Payton has the 'it' factor. And I believe him.

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.

On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.