1. “The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.”
2. “Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.”
3. “You can’t run a business or anything on a theory.”
4. “Leadership is practised not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
5. “Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.”
6. “If your desk isn’t cluttered, you probably aren’t doing your job.”
7. “It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”
8. “It is more difficult to manage non-performance than performance.”
9. “A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.”
10. “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
11. “Performance stands out like a ton o diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.”
12. “Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”
13. “We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.”
14. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
15. “Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.”
