While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

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.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

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.

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.

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.