Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

Leadership is all about getting results.

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity