Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.