Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

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

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.

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