Excellence Implies Striving For The Highest Standards

Creativity Requires The Freedom To Consider 'unthinkable' Alternatives, To Doubt The Worth Of Cherished Practices. Every Organization, Every Society Is Under The Spell Of Assumptions So Familiar That They Are Never Questioned, Least Of All By Those Most Intimately Involved.

The Society Which Scorns Excellence In Plumbing As A Humble Activity And Tolerates Shoddiness In Philosophy Because It Is An Exalted Activity Will Have Neither Good Plumbing Nor Good Philosophy: Neither Its Pipes Nor Its Theories Will Hold Water.

If The Modern Leader Doesn't Know The Facts, He Is In Grave Trouble, But Rarely Do The Facts Provide Unqualified Guidance.

We Pay A Heavy Price For Our Fear Of Failure. It Is A Powerful Obstacle To Growth. It Assures The Progressive Narrowing Of The Personality And Prevents Exploration And Experimentation. There Is No Learning Without Some Difficulty And Fumbling. If You Want To Keep On Learning, You Must Keep On Risking Failure-all Your Life.

What Leaders Have To Remember Is That Somewhere Under The Somnolent Surface Is The Creature That Builds Civilizations, The Dreamer Of Dreams, The Risk Taker. And Remembering That, The Leader Must Reach Down To The Springs That Never Dry Up, The Ever-fresh Springs Of The Human Spirit.