Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.