Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our 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.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.