“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.”

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Effectiveness must be learned.

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.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Someone was like, ‘If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.’ And I was like, ‘Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.’

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them – even if it’s not logical.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.