For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.