“delegation without follow-through is abdication.”

“Electronic banking is still a clumsy way to replace a stamp. And interactive television seems to have vanished even before the ink dried on the mega-announcements.”

“Don't differentiate without a difference.”

“In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.”

“The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.”

“We live in an age in which the pace of technological change is pulsating ever faster, causing waves that spread outward toward all industries. This increased rate of change will have an impact on you, no matter what you do for a living.”

“So in the end careful interviewing doesn’t guarantee you anything, it merely increases your odds of getting lucky.”

“Adapt or die. Some”

“Middle managers are the muscle and bone of every sizable organization, no matter how loose or “flattened” the hierarchy, but they are largely ignored despite their immense importance to our society and economy.”

“The art of management lies in the capacity to select from the many activities of seemingly comparable significance the one or two or three that provide leverage well beyond the others and concentrate on them.”

“There is no question that having standards and believing in them and staffing an administrative unit objectively using forecasted workloads will help you to maintain and enhance productivity.”

“A manager’s output = The output of his organization + The output of the neighboring organizations under his influence”

“The key to survival is to learn to add more value—and”

“if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself”

“At Intel, we put ourselves through an annual strategic long-range planning effort in which we examine our future five years off. But what is really being influenced here? It is the next year—and only the next year.”

“[..] in the work of the soft professions, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between output and activity. And as noted, stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”

“Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.”

“My day always ends when I’m tired and ready to go home, not when I’m done. I am never done.”

“Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.”

“To get acceptable quality at the lowest cost, it is vitally important to reject defective material at a stage where its accumulated value is at the lowest possible level. Thus, as noted, we are better off catching a bad raw egg than a cooked one, and screening out our college applicant before he visits Intel. In short, reject before investing further value.”

“The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed”

“The output of a manager is the output of the organizational units under his or her supervision or influence.”

“Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace—and you out of that workplace?”