Benjamin Franklin and the 12 Rules Of Management

1. Finish better than your beginnings
2. All education is self-education
3. Seek first to manage yourself, then to manage others
4. Influence is more important than victory
5. Work hard and watch your costs
6. Everybody wants to appear reasonable
7. Create your own set of values to guide your actions
8. Incentive is everything!
9. Create solutions for seemingly impossible problems
10. Become a revolutionary for experimentation and change
11. Sometimes it’s better to do 1,001 small things right than only one large thing right
12. Deliberately cultivate your reputation and legacy!

via Guy Welch.