When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.