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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Sep 30, 2025
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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