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

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.