Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.