Time is the scarcest resource.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.