An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense