Make every decision as if you owned the company.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.