This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

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

True freedom comes only from true wisdom.

When you rejects knowledge God can't help you because He can't help you with what you do not know.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.

Those who create are hard of heart.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].