Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

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

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

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

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.