The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

You can't manage what you don't measure.

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

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.