Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Do it, fix it, try it.

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.