The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

The heavenly Father is the Father to the fatherless.

Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.