There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

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

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.