Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.