The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

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

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.