Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

One either meets or one works.

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

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!