"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."

"Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!"

"Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules."

"For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce."

"As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life."

"Wisdom principle 41 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 65."

"Wisdom principle 45 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 10."

"Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis."