No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.