The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Leadership is more doing than dash.