Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
The new information technology.. Internet and e-mail.. have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance.
The computer is a moron.
Decision making is the specific executive task.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
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.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A business exists to create a customer
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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