It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.