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

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.