If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever..

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective..

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers.

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy….

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively..

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to….

The most effective way to manage change is to create it..

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned….

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does..

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work..

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities..

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject..

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up..

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese..

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a ….

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast..

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow..

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence..

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large..

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths..