The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

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