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

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”

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

“I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)”

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

“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.”

“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.”