We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

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.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.