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.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

Profit is not a cause but a result-

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.