Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

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

Time is the scarcest resource.

During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.