If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

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 fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?