Too many CEO's are being judged today not by how effectively they manage operations, but by how they manage the Street. Too many analysts are being judged not by how well they analyze a particular company, but by how well they assist in selling the latest deal.

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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

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The chief executive... like a juggler keeps a number of projects in the air: periodically one comes down, is given a new burst of energy, and is sent back into orbit.

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

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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps... If the president of a company has a clean desk� then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

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We have corporate CEOs who raise their pay 20 percent or more in years when they lay off thousands of people. It's obscene.

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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

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The majority of businessmen are incapable of original thought because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason.

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