- “Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”
- “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”
- “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”
- “Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”
- “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”
- “People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
- “Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”
- “Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”
- “Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things”