Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes..
Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one..
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world..
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it..
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer..
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it..
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent..
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen..
People alone of all the resources can grow and develop..
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer print….
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking..
[Management] has authority only as long as it performs..
Do what you do best, and outsource the rest..
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths..
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four..
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn..
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and rep….
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information..
Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed ….
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Ma….
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether bus….