In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

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

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.