If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it..

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail..

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to..

Think before you act: it's not your money..

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….

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting ….

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it..

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism ….

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill..

All good management is the expression of one great idea.

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….

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..

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail..

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough..

The first myth of management is that it exists..

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs..

Cash in must exceed cash out..

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate..

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong..

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 ….

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity..