Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

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.

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

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

I've been rejected a hundred times. It just takes that one person who totally believes in you!

Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !

Second place is the first loser.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

I'm an energetic walker. I don't believe in jogging, but I walk a lot. I walk in New York. It's much faster than a limo.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.