Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

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

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.