John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.