An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.