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.

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.

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

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

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

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.