You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.

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

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.