Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.