Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

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

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again."