I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.
The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.