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

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

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