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

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.