Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.