No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

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

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees