If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

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.

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.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

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.

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

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.