Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
I don’t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.