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

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.