Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.