Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their people could achieve a great purpose.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it aims to satisfy in what group of people and with what value proposition that distinguishes the business from its competitors.

Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a result, they borrow additional money by using their credit card and they fall into high debt. The result of the growing income gap is a slower growing GDP (too few people with money to spend) and a rising tide of indebtedness.