Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

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.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.