Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

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.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.