Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.

The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.