The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.