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.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

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

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

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

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.

If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?