Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you’ve got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we’re right.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.