The executive art is ...

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
 Chester Barnard

More phrases

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
 Chester Barnard