The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.