Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

We always remember best the irrelevant.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.