The company is a place to build people.
Just as there is no parent who does not care for their children, there is no manager who does not care for their employees.
If you manage your company exactly as your employees say, the company is bound to collapse.
Risk management means the ability to imagine worst-case scenarios.
Paternal leaders tie balloons to their employees; maternal leaders take away their weights.
Prideful of position, drunk on fame, wallowing in wealth, neglectful of effort (Kazuo Inamori, Kyocera founder)
Entrepreneurs see strength and talk of dreams. Managers see weakness and criticize.
Passing on a business means entrusting the decision-making to your successor.
Service does not determine price, price determines service.
All executives have a past, and all employees have a future.
The level of a goal is determined by the height of the ambition. If you keep ambition low, you will only wither.
Creating systems is not about making and keeping rules. It is about continuing to keep them until they become habit.
You have two options - to look reality squarely in the face, or to turn away from it.