When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. Even

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.