History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Managers are action-focused; they are not philosophers and should not be.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everything else will become obsolete over time.