A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.