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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still read more
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers read more
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the read more
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed read more
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to read more
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it