Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

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

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.