I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

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.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

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