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

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.