Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

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

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Business is society's change agent.

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.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.