“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. ”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)”

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”