Time is the scarcest resource.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.