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

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"