Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

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

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.