The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.