“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

“To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.”

“The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.”

“There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

“What's measured improves”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”