Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.