Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.