The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
Charles HandyThe companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles HandyIn a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Charles HandyIf economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Charles HandyPresidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.
Charles Handy