Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

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

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.