Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.