Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.