Occupation: Executive Birth: July 30, 1920 Death: January 12, 1998
Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun..
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure..
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness..
To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits..
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created..
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy..
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun..
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart..
"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they ev….
Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen….
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried..
Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?.
Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off..
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions..
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs..
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating o….
Make every decision as if you owned the company..
It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who ha….
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fig….
Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch..
We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff..