The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.