All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.