I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.