If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.