Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.