Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.