The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.