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.

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Make every decision as if you owned the company.

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

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

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.