The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change