Chester Barnard Quotes

#1. To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Chester Barnard

#2. Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Chester Barnard

#3. Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.

Christy Hall

#4. There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

Eula Biss

#5. [Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Emma Goldman

#6. Reading is soap for the soul; writing is the scrubbing.

Richard Milleville

#7. I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

Adrian Grenier

#8. I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#9. The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.

Chester Barnard

#10. The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.

Chester Barnard

#11. Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

Chester Barnard

#12. You must always work.

Auguste Rodin

#13. A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

Chester Barnard

#14. I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

Arthur Wellesley

#15. Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Chester Barnard

#17. A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

Chester Barnard

#18. Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Chester Barnard

#19. When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

Eric Cantona

#20. The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Orison Swett Marden

#21. Remember, your goodness as a person isn't based on how much you give in relationships, and it isn't selfish to set limits on people who keep on taking.

Lindsay C. Gibson

#22. After an hour's drive, he pulled off onto a gravel road and followed it back to a lake surrounded by woods. At one time, the place had been special. He had gone fishing there with his sons when they were younger.

Angela Roquet