The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

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

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.