The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.