The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"