The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

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

You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Half a loaf is better than none.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.