Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.