..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.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.