Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers."

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.

Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.

Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people