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.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.