If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

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

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.