Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

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.

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.