Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.