The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

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

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.