Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.