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.

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

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.

It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.

Make every decision as if you owned the company.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.