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

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.