We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

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.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.