We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.