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."

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

One either meets or one works.