A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

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.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government