I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

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