Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.