Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.