The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

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