In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.