Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.