Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

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.

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.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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