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

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.

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.

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

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