7 Quotes by Robert S. McNamara

Management is, in the end, the most creative of all the arts—for its medium is human talent itself.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing ability without a pencil isno particular advantage.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

There’s something beyond one’s self.

Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.

The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, “The reward of suffering is experience.” Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam.