Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

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.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

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.