The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Business is society's change agent.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.