You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.