Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.