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

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.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.