Managers Need to Know – Books

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Raymond Chandler

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Edward de Bono

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Lee Iacocca

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Barack Obama

Books constitute capital. A book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills..

Alan Greenspan

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Peter Drucker

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca