Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."