Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

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

Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.

I think everything good and right in this world should be put on vinyl.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

Respect for the law must be the basis for all legal action.

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.