If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

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

Effective management always means asking the right question.

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.

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.