The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

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

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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.