Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

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

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.