Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.