Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

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

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.