(at the beginning of our 1400 class) "Do you believe any of this? [silence] ...You are all painfully digesting your lunch..."
(after doing a second pass on a early analysis) "So this analysis is not quick and dirty, it's shitty and wrong."
(from a Drucker interview with an American steel executive when asked about new ideas and innovation in the steel industry) "Well I didn't think it could be such a good idea, or else I would have had it myself." Long live NIH!
(explaining the migration of steel plants from the US 'steel belt' southward) "They go together: bible-thumping and union-bashing... complementary goods."
(commenting on the cost of trade sanctions on the American economy) "At one point the cost for each job saved was one million dollars... for this price you could have sent every worker to Harvard Business School for retraining, one-on-one sessions with Peter Drucker himself..."
(describing factor inputs for minimills) "Well, the way people drive in this country, scrap steel should be cheap..."
(after writing 'political gambit' as the next discussion topic) "I'm using this term 'gambit', I think it's a chess term. I don't know what it means but I like it..."
