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

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

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

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

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.

The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decision that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.