Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.