Birth: 1826 Death: 1878
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough..
Cash in must exceed cash out..
Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs..
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong..
Think before you act: it's not your money..
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism ….
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired re….
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all ….
Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting ….
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill..
The first myth of management is that it exists..
All good management is the expression of one great idea.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity..
Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to..
Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail..
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like coo….
Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate..
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers..
No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which inno….
Effective management always means asking the right question..
The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it..