...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.