Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

The organization is, above all, social. It is people.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.