Take Your Job Seriously, But Not Yourself

Character In Many Ways Is Everything In Leadership. It Is Made Up Of Many Things, But I Would Say Character Is Really Integrity. When You Delegate Something To A Subordinate, For Example, It Is Absolutely Your Responsibility, And He Must Understand This. You As A Leader Must Take Complete Responsibility For What The Subordinate Does. I Once Said, As A Sort Of Wisecrack, That Leadership Consists Of Nothing But Taking Responsibility For Everything That Goes Wrong And Giving Your Subordinates Credit For Everything That Goes Well.

Planning Is Useless... But The Process Itself Is Indispensable.

Now All Of Us Deplore This Vast Military Spending. Yet, In The Face Of The Soviet Attitude, We Realize Its Necessity. Whatever The Cost, America Will Keep Itself Secure. But In The Process We Must Not, By Our Own Hand, Destroy Or Distort The American System. This We Could Do By Useless Overspending. I Know One Sure Way To Overspend. That Is By Overindulging Sentimental Attachments To Outmoded Military Machines And Concepts.

As We Peer Into Society's Future, We -- You And I, And Our Government -- Must Avoid The Impulse To Live Only For Today, Plundering For Our Own Ease And Convenience The Precious Resources Of Tomorrow. We Cannot Mortgage The Material Assets Of Our Grandchildren Without Risking The Loss Also Of Their Political And Spiritual Heritage. We Want Democracy To Survive For All Generations To Come, Not To Become The Insolvent Phantom Of Tomorrow.

We Cannot Risk Living All Our Lives Under Emergency Measures.