The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager..

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast..

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible..

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign thi….

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework..

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works..

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. I….

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results.

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

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try..

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentra….

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

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, h….

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers..

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen..

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to econom….

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities….

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage..

You can't manage what you don't measure..

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive..