Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

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

The computer is a moron.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

"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.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.