Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.