Birth: 1929
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe..
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic fu….
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the g….
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human be….
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move t….
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Inves….
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, an….
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny..
You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, ….
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your tim….
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it..
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, e….
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out..
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations..
To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any hea….
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it..
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?.
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity..
If you think you can't, why think.
An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, ….
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping.