Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

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