Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

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.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.