Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.