Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.