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

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.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

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