Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

You can't manage what you don't measure.