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

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.