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

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

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

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.