The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Thaddeaus Hammond – American banker and former farmer, president of the Farmers” National Bank and the Rotary Club Overton, from J. R. Sprague”s “Big Business-itis”, in “The Rotarian” N° 27 (3. September 1925)