Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.