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

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

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