Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.