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.

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.

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

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

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

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

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