Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

Mentally strong people are comfortable in their own skin.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.