Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.