Quotes from "Less Is More"

In the absence of a simple BIG objective to act as a unifying force, no leader or manager can hope to make a company more productive.

-Bill Zollars,CEO, Yellow Corp

The first job leader or manager is to crystallize for people where the business is going and how it's going to get there.

-Ken Iverson, former CEO, Nucor

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

-Winston Churchill

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

-Eugege McCarthy

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

-Vince Lombardi

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives backon.

-Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principal

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

-Chinese Proverb

Question: Why did the accountants cross the road?

Answer: Because the client told them to.

Things want to flow and people want to flow. Most of the time we're tripped up by our own socks.

-Ed. Constantine, Simpler Consulting

Anything that doesn't add value is waste. Good business managers have an obligation to constantly eliminate it.

-Pat Lancaster, Chairman, Lantech

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

-Steel executive Charles M.Schwab

The complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.

-Murphy's law of Computing

Unless a message is consistent with the cluture it will be seen as being false.

- Dr. James Campbell Quick

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing right things.

-Peter Drucker