If you have more than five goals, you have none.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.