The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.