Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

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

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.