The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

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

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.