Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

What's measured improves

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.