Leaders grow; they are not made.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

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