One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.