We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

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

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.