The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

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.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

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

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.