The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.