People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

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

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.