We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.