It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.