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.

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

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

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

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.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.