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…the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say ‘no.’

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company.

…it’s important to understand that nearly every company goes through life-threatening moments.

Perhaps the most important attribute required to be a successful CEO is leadership.

It’s important that you give people feedback because you want them to succeed and not because you want them to fail.

The difference between being mediocre and magical is often the differen ce between letting people take creative risk and holding them too tightly accountable. Accountability is important, but it’s not the only thing that’s important.

One important advance in the discipline and in the practice of management is that both now embrace entrepreneurship and innovation.

…the ultimate test of management is performance. Achievement rather than knowledge remains, of necessity, both aim and proof.

…management has to start out with the assumption that there is no one technology that pertains to an industry and that, on the contrary, all technologies are capable – and indeed likely – to be of major importance to any industry…