Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

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

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Leadership is all about getting results.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.