We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

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

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.