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

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

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

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.

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

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.

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