There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn’t.
One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.
The fruit of your work grows on other people’s trees.
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it’s selling.
The computer is a moron.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
I’m better about things than about people. I’m more interested in people, but I’m better at ideas.
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.
Don’t take on things you don’t believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.