People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.