Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge