Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.