Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

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

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 creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

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.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.