A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.