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

Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

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.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Champions make their own luck.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.