Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.