Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.