Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.