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.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

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