Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

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.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.