“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent.”

“Never underestimate change. What seems simple at the top is magnified at lower echelons and is extremely disruptive. It is a festering crisis that needs attention from senior management or else loyalty, efficiency, and productivity will suffer.”

“People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.”

“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”

“Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.”

“Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less.”

“I know up on top you are seeing great sights,
But down here on the bottom,
We too should have rights.”

“All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.

A mind like compost.”

“People claim that significant change requires commitment from the top. True, the top is necessary, but it's not enough. No CEO can do this alone.”

“The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.”