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

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 ; the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".

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?

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.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Only little people pay taxes.

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.