Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.