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.

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

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

Cash in must exceed cash out.

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

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.