“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

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

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

The future is purchased by the present.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.