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

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.