“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

I’m under no illusion that there are things about me that I’d like to change. I just accept who I am, and I’m proud of it.

From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Whenever you say ‘yes’ to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your ‘yes’ is worth the less.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.