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

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.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'