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.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

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

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.