Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be, " making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.