Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.