No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

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.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.