In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.