Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

One either meets or one works.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.