Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

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

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.