The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

Leadership is more doing than dash.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.