The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

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