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.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

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

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

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

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

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