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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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

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.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Expenditure rises to meet income.