Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

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.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.