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.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.