Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?