The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.