The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.