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

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.