The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.