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

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

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

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Seek your higher life, the holy heavenly living.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow

Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.

I tried to control the narrative.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.