Hire attitude train skills.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

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

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.