Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Effective management always means asking the right question.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.
Greatness comes with patience.
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else