Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

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

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

The organization is, above all, social. It is people.

The computer is a moron.