Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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.
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
