Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Time is the scarcest resource.

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.