..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

You can't manage what you don't measure.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.