Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.