"I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an eighteen-inch fish."

“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.”

“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions..”

“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”