"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.