Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.