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

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

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

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Management must manage!