You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

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

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.