Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates