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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.