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

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.