If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

Knowledge applied is productivity.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.