We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.