What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

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.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop