Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results.
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
Decision making is the specific executive task.
Decisions exist only in the present.
In a rural society communities are “given” for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today’s society.
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.