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People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

— Marvin Bower The Will to Manage (1966)

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A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

The Will to Manage (1966)

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

The Will to Manage (1966)

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

The Will to Manage (1966)

I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.

The Will to Manage (1966)

The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

The Will to Manage (1966)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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