Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.