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

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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.