Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

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