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 individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.