The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

You can't be all things to all people.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.