Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant