Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

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