They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

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

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.