The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

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

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.