Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

If you want to predict the future create it.