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

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

What’s measured improves.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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.

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

I’m better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I’ll be tomorrow.

There was a better life out there if I made the right decisions and right choices.

Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

Perhaps it’s true that I’m very hard on myself, but that’s better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.