Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.