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

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.