Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.