Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.