Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

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

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.