A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.
The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...
It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don’t have enough of it, you’re out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you’re really missing something.