The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

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.

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.