Great companies don't just adapt to change—they anticipate it and shape it.
The key to power is the ability to judge who is best to serve your purposes, and then to win them over to your side.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.