Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.