Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.