Make every decision as if you owned the company.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

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

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.

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.