A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.