Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.