Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

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