“Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.”

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

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

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

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

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

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don’t give in to them.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.