One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Eupsychian Management 1965; republiAbraham Maslowd as Maslow on Management 1998
The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance New York: Harper & Row 1966; Chapel Hill: Maurice Bassett 2002. He was thus ineligible for the military. This informed his theory that a person enjoys "peak experiences" high points in life when the individual is in harmony with himself and his surroundings.

Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1 1908 – June 8 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority culminating in self-actualization. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University Brooklyn College New School for Social Research and Columbia University.