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

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

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

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

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.

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.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.