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

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

The computer is a moron.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

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

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

The wise speak only of what they know

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.