Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

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

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.