Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.