Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.