One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

"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."

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.