As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.