Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.