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.

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

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.