There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Leadership is all about getting results.