The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

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

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

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.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

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

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

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

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Management must manage!

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

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

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming empty clear desktop I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration discrimination organization innovation and communication.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Communication works for those who work at it.