Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.