“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.”

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can’t keep our children safe. We can’t accept the fact that we can’t keep our children safe.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.