The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.