The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.