The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

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

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.