Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.