For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.