No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Cash in must exceed cash out.