Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe