To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

- Chester Barnard

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

- Chester Barnard

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

- Chester Barnard

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

- Chester Barnard

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of…

- Chester Barnard

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

- Chester Barnard

I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something …

- Chester Barnard

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

- Chester Barnard

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

- Chester Barnard