It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.