Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"