If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.