It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

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