Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

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

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

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.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.