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

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

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

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

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.