Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.