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Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity
You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.
It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.