Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

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.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.