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

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

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.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.