“If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.”

“You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.”

“The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.”

“There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.”

“Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.”

“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”

“Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.”

“There is no working middle course in wartime.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”

“When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.”

“Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.”

“A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.”

“I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Greatness knows itself.”

“Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?”

“Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.”

“Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.”

“A forte always makes a foible.”