Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

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.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!