“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

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.

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

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.

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

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

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother’s advice about honesty being the best policy.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

But the shortest works are always the best.

The reason of the strongest is always the best.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.