As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

Time is the scarcest resource.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.