Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.