Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?" - Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...

The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.