Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.
Effective management always means asking the right question.
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
The first myth of management is that it exists.
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.