Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

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

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant